Wednesday 26 March 2014

Shoah

(1985)

RATING:100%
FORMAT:DVD

Lengthy, engrossing, emotionally exhausting - yet life affirming - look at White supremacy’s worst. Survivors are witnesses telling their stories; strengthening their will to ensure it never happens again. Germans being keen to destroy their criminal traces proves the need of such testimony; making the past the present – not history, but a living essence.

The Shoah inevitably sprang from Western culture’s belief that civilization is only possible if mind and emotion are separated - since both are said to be in destructive conflict; allowing mass murder without thought and genocide without emotion. The Holocaust is not an aberration of the emotional repressions of the West, but an inevitable consequence of them. Racial fears are taken as read, so no formal extermination document exists; entailing euphemisms like Final Solution.

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